Lucetius

"Light-bringer." Also Lucerius, that is, the giver of light, occur as surnames of Jupiter. According to Servius1 the name was used especially among the Oscans. See also Lucetia.

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References

Notes

  1. on Virgil's Aeneid ix, 570.

Sources

  • Gellius, v, 12.
  • Macrobius. Saturnalia i, 15.
  • Paulus Diaconus, p. 114 (ed. Miller).
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.